Your Morning Linc: Muse at MSG, Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer, Iron Man 3 Clip, Jamie Foxx as Electro

Good morning! As I was beginning to write this post I received an e-mail from Titan Magazines, publishers of the Star Wars Insider (to which I have been a subscriber since Issue #37 in 1999). Apparently, thanks to my participation in a survey a month or so ago, I've won a whole bunch of books and an action figure! Thanks, Insider!

My own copy was signed by Ian McDiarmid himself!

Well, that was a great way to start the day! And now onto the news!

1. Muse at Madison Square Garden

Speaking of being extremely lucky, I was fortunate enough to go with a few friends last night to see the British alt-rock  band Muse at Madison Square Garden. I've been a fan of theirs for a while now, and really love their style of music. This tour, for their newest album The 2nd Law, was a feast for the eyes, ears, and soul. Imagine a giant ziggurat descending from the sky, changing shape and color, and syncing up with phenomenal music. That was this concert! Singer Matt Bellamy, drummer Dominic Howard, and bassist Christopher Wolstenholme were in rare form...or not so rare, as Muse puts on fantastic shows on a regular basis. New songs like "Madness" and "Supremacy" were great to see live, and classics like "Knights of Cydonia", "Plug-In Baby" ,"Hysteria", "Resistance", and others got the crowd jumping and singing like nothing else. Visually stunning, audibly incredible, and performed with such passion and love for the fans, Muse's The 2nd Law Tour cannot and should not be missed! Check out some pictures below:

Hat tip to opening act Biffy Clyro who were actually pretty good.

2. Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer: Sherlock's Gone Bad

The latest trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkenss is out and it...is...awesome. Now I'm not normally a fan of the Trek, but J.J. Abrams has done such a masterful job with the series it's hard not to appreciate it. While we still don't know who Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is playing (rumors are it's a certain name worth shouting angrily), he certainly is at his most villainous in this movie. Check out the trailer below, and watch for around the 1:13 mark for a serious "holy crap!" moment:

 

3. Iron Man 3 Clip at MTV Movie Awards

And while we're talking trailers, let's take a look an exclusive clip of Iron Man 3 that was shown at this year's MTV Movie Awards. Nothing to say but it looks like Tony is in a biiiit of a pickle:

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4. Jamie Foxx: Electro Unchained

And rounding out the news, take a look at the first pictures of Jaime Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2:

And, for comparison, Electro in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon:

And that's it for now! Hope you continue to have a great day!

- Joe

Your Evening Linc: Trailers Galore! Game of Thrones and Iron Man 3 trailers Promise A Whole Lot of Awesome to Come!

While I know you're all glued to the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars (because, let's face it, so am I), I just wanted to pop in with some evening links for your perusing.

1. New Game of Thrones Trailer and Teasers

The new season of Game of Thrones is almost here (again, look to your right. There be a countdown.) Not one to pass up the opportunity to make the wait seem excrutiatingly long, the good folks at HBO dropped this little nugget:

No doubt some serious saber-clashing, spear throwing, and fire-breathing is about to go down! As an added bonus, here are two teaser clips. The first, called "War" deals with what everyone wants to get out of the long and bloody feud engulfing Westeros:



The second, called "Beast", gives us a hint as to the darkness that is to come:


Brace yourselves, awesomeness is coming.

2. Iron Man 3 Trailer and Interviews

Not to be outdone, Marvel has released a new trailer for Iron Man 3. It looks like Mr. Stark has everything on the line as he fights his comic book arch-nemesis: The Mandarin

"I don't always wear rings. But when I do, I use them to take over the world."

Check out the awesome trailer here:

 

And Total Film had a series of interviews with the actors, including the man playing the Mandarin, Ben Kingsley. Here's what he had to say:

"I didn't have any template to copy. I'm undereducated as far as Marvel comics are concerned, and that can be a good thing, like coming to a Shakespeare play fresh rather than having done it 20 times....[It's] a human portrayal of evil on a grand scale. [Mandarin] released demonic layers in me...I did go a little crazy!"

Well here's hoping all that craziness works out when Iron Man 3 comes out this summer. And, if you ever wondered what happened to the first Lt. Col. James Rhodes, Terrance Howard, he explains to Total Film that the studio offered him a bum deal which he walked on, but it wasn't all bad news for The Man Who Would Be War Machine:

"I didn't know  it wasn't a mutually binding contract; it was only beneficial for them to bring me back or not. They can honor it or not. And you know they made a great deal, Don (Cheadle) and Robert (Downey, Jr.) they get along well. But the best thing that happened as a result of it, I went back to school and finished and got my doctorate in chemical engineering. And now I have a company where we grow diamonds. That's going to replace the silicon in computers; that's going to replace all gemstones. So, if that hadn't happened, I would never have gone back [to school]."

So it looks like, in the future, Terrance can build his own metal suit if he so chose.

"'Next time?' Hell, I'll buy it off you right now. Will a fistful of chemically engineered diamonds cover it?"

Well that's your Evening Linc! And I've got plenty more coming your way only here at The Missing Linc! Stay tuned!

-Joe

Iron Man 3 NEW Trailer

Updated:

The new Iron Man 3 trailer is here and it's a stunner! It seems like Tony has met his match in the classic Iron Man villain, the Mandarin....and he needs back up! Tin really hits the fan as the Mandarin offers Tony a choice..."an empty life, or a meaningful death". Judging by the response, I'd say Mr. Stark chooses to live awesomely.